Paging Dr. Freud and Jerry Springer: Relax. Sit down and kick back. The emergency at Cofidis team headquarters has ended and nobody with experience in interpersonal crisis management is needed on the double.

At least for now, it’s finito for all the psychodrama surrounding the French team, which, five days before the start of this Tour de France, fired its manager, the personable Eric Boyer. Cofidis officials cited the team’s anemic record of two victories this year and the defection of a promising rider, Tony Gallopin, to RadioShack last winter.

Reporting this, L’Equipe, the French sports newspaper, alluded to continuing disharmony and tensions among the riders and officials since the big Cofidis drug bust of 2004. That’s eight years ago, a long time to be tense.

In came Yvon Sanquer, a calming influence at Festina and Astana in other emergencies. The purpose of the change so close to the start of the Tour, L’Equipe explained, was to give the riders an electroshock treatment.

The voltage seems to be working: Cofidis riders have covered nearly every early breakaway and participated in a few sprint finishes. One of its riders, the Estonian Rein Taaramäe, finished top five in the brutal Stage 7 on Saturday and vaulted into fourth place overall. Maybe the team has also been sprinkled with fairy dust.

But keep the scalpels, probes, and electrodes handy, guys, for another team in need of strong therapy. That would be RadioShack, whose fusion with Leopard produced the most misguided hybrid since Liszt transcribed Beethoven’s Eighth for solo piano.

What’s most surprising about the RadioShack turmoil is how public it’s been. At Cofidis, Boyer left without a word. From the riders, not a peep. At RadioShack, it’s been noisy.

Johan Bruyneel, the team’s manager, has heretofore treated reporters’ questions about team problems with cold and silent contempt. Currently he’s a babbling brook of revelation. His riders followed suit until Fabian Cancellara took the yellow jersey in the prologue and harmony began to prevail. What follows now that Cancellara is far out of yellow?

Up front in the meltdown for a while was Andy Schleck, who traded complaints with Bruyneel all spring. Then he crashed in a long time trial in the Critérium du Dauphiné in June, broke something, and there went the Tour de France.

Chris Horner didn’t even get far enough to crash out of the Tour. Because he didn’t ride in the Dauphiné or the Tour of Switzerland, Horner was told by Bruyneel that he would be left off the Tour roster. The two then engaged in some “he said, she said” extremely public acrimony until Horner was named to the list of starters.

That move upset Jakob Fuglsang, RadioShack’s winner of the Tour of Luxembourg, who complained to Sporten.dk in his native Denmark that he should have had a Tour spot.

“There is more than what appears in the press,” he said about the team’s problems this year. “We see only the tip of the iceberg. It does not take a genius to see that it is not running as it should.”

For that comment, Fuglsang was sent to the gulag by Bruyneel, who ruled that the Dane will not compete again this season in a WorldTour race and thus not be able to accumulate the UCI points that determine a rider’s contract value. Instead of the Tour de France, he was in the Tour of Austria, where he won a key stage and took the race lead.

In retrospect, Fuglsang said, “It was perhaps not smart to have commented on my situation, but where are we then? One should be allowed to speak his mind without having sporting consequences.”

Tell that to Andy Schleck’s older brother, Frank, who has been exchanging words with Bruyneel since the Giro.

The manager has other problems, of course: The International Cycling Union charges that three of his riders haven’t been paid since May. Then there’s the USADA accusation of doping against Lance Armstrong and five others, including Bruyneel.